CPR
Shock/Bleeding
Wounds/Poisons/Dressings
Bone/Thermal and Cold
Burns
100

The most reliable and accessible pulse to determine pulselessness.

What is the carotid pulse?

100

Amount of circulating blood in an average adult.

What is 5-6 liters?

100

Irrigation with copious amounts helps to remove debris.

What is normal saline?

100

A break in the continuity of a bone.

What is a fracture?

100

The least serious of burns.

What is a shallow partial-thickness burn (first degree)?

200

Anaphylactic reaction, asphyxiation, drowning, cardiac arrest, drug overdose, electrical shock, SIDS

What are events necessitating CPR?

200

Brachial, carotid, femoral, radial

What are the most common sites of an arterial bleed?

200

Immobilize the object with dressings and tape.  If there is a sucking wound, apply and airtight dressing.

What is a chest wound?

200

A grating sound heard when the ends of a broken bone scrape together.

What is crepitus?

200

An adult is burned on both arms, and chest.  Use the rule of nines for percentage of body body burned.

What is 36%?

300

Use this to establish an airway if a neck injury is suspected.

What is the jaw-thrust (chin-lift) maneuver.

300

The most effective treatment of bleeding.

What is apply direct pressure?

300

Bee or wasp stingers should be removed in this manner.

What is a scraping motion?

300

During heatstroke, the nurse monitors the victim until his/her temperature falls below this.

What is 100 degrees (37.7C)?

300

Use cool compresses immediately for this type of burn.

What is a partial-thickness burn?

400

Legal protection for those who give first aid, in a reasonable and prudent way, in an emergent situation.

What are good samaritan laws?

400

Apply pressure to the bridge of the nose, keep head tilted forward, remind victim to breathe through the mouth and apply ice compresses.

What are nursing interventions for epistaxis?

400

A patient arrives at the emergency department after taking some form of poison.  The first thing the nurse does ........

What is call poison control center?

400

The nurse places the victim in a supine position with the head lower than the feet to treat possible shock and covers the victim with warm blankets during this.

What is hypothermia?

400

A deep partial-thickness burn's signs and symptoms.

What are erythema and blister formation?

500

If CPR is started within _________ of cardiac arrest, it may help reverse clinical death.

What is 4 minutes?

500

Dark, tarry stool found with internal bleeding.

What is melena?
500

When bandaging an extremity, in order to assess circulation, the nurse leaves this exposed.

What are fingers/toes?

500

During hypothermia, if the victim is conscience, provide them with this.

What is warm fluids?

500

This burn destroys the skin and underlying tissue.

What is a full-thickness burn?